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Polly Pry. ca. 1900.
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Polly Pry. ca. 1900.
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ARTIST
ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
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Description
Artist: ALPHONSE MUCHA (1860-1939)
Size: 13 x 17 in./33 x 43 cm
Condition: Pen and ink drawing. Framed.
Printer:
Reference:
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Artist: Mucha; Literary
Polly Pry. ca. 1900.
"To hold, as 'twere, The Mirror up to Nature"—in this case, Mucha does not mean that entirely literally, despite the plumes of flowers and branches of trees flourishing in this image. He is in fact paying tribute to the investigate journalism of Polly Pry, the pen name of Leonel Rose Campbell (1857-1938). After a small job at the New York World, she became a media success at The Denver Post, though her career was not without controversy (we recommend reading her full story sometime). She then became one of the first women to own her own newspaper, which she named The Polly Pry. In its pages, she attacked unions, capitalists, anarchists, communists, and the government; she was fiercely feminist and used her platform to promote women's suffrage. It's unclear what the purpose of this particular drawing was, but it's a spectacular memento of both Mucha's intoxicating hand and Polly Pry's groundbreaking career.
Size: 13 x 17 in./33 x 43 cm
Condition: Pen and ink drawing. Framed.
Printer:
Reference:
Key Words: Art Nouveau; Artist: Mucha; Literary
Polly Pry. ca. 1900.
"To hold, as 'twere, The Mirror up to Nature"—in this case, Mucha does not mean that entirely literally, despite the plumes of flowers and branches of trees flourishing in this image. He is in fact paying tribute to the investigate journalism of Polly Pry, the pen name of Leonel Rose Campbell (1857-1938). After a small job at the New York World, she became a media success at The Denver Post, though her career was not without controversy (we recommend reading her full story sometime). She then became one of the first women to own her own newspaper, which she named The Polly Pry. In its pages, she attacked unions, capitalists, anarchists, communists, and the government; she was fiercely feminist and used her platform to promote women's suffrage. It's unclear what the purpose of this particular drawing was, but it's a spectacular memento of both Mucha's intoxicating hand and Polly Pry's groundbreaking career.
